2 h. ago Zelenskyy says he wants to see an agreement on security guarantees before meeting Vladimir Putin – Ukraine war live

Amid US offering minimal security a group of allies led by Britain and France are putting together a military coalitionWe have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.The commission’s press release says the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports, including strategic sectors such as cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Trump needs to understand what the war in Ukraine is really about | Kenneth Roth

It’s not about Nato or the Soviet Union. It’s about democracyIt may be difficult for a real-estate mogul like Donald Trump to recognize, but Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is not about slices of war-torn land in eastern Ukraine. It is about Ukraine’s democracy. Putin fears that the Russian people will see that democracy as an enticing alternative to his stultifying autocratic rule. Trump is unlikely to secure a peace deal unless he acts on that reality and changes the cost-benefit analysis behind Putin’s continuing war.Much of the public analysis of the Alaska summit between Trump and Putin, and the Washington collection of European leaders protecting the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, from the temperamental Trump, has been replete with red-herring issues. For example, Putin did not invade Ukraine because of feared Nato expansion. The unanimous consent of all Nato members required to admit Ukraine is nowhere on the horizon, especially since article 5 of the Nato tre...

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3 h. ago Trump steps back from Russia and Ukraine peace talks for now, sources say

US president told top advisers trilateral meeting would take place after leaders of the two countries have met firstDonald Trump intends to leave Russia and Ukraine to organize a meeting between their leaders without directly playing a role for now, according to administration officials familiar with the situation, taking a step back from the negotiations to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.The next stage in Trump’s eyes to end the war in Ukraine remains a bilateral meeting between Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, the officials said. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Putin's top diplomat warns of 'road to nowhere' in Ukraine security talks

Russia’s foreign minister has warned against talks about Ukraine’s security without Russia at the table

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24 h. ago Putin and Zelensky have only met once before – here’s what happened

With Donald Trump pushing for a meeting between the two war time leaders, we look at their last encounter

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33 h. ago Trump hopes he can get into heaven and believes solving Ukraine war will get him there

US president suggested brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine would help him ‘get to heaven’

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35 h. ago Trump pushes for meeting to end war as Russia continues attacks on Ukraine: Live updates

Putin and Zelensky could meet within just two weeks as European leaders hail ‘breakthrough’ in Washington

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38 h. ago Recap: Putin suggests hosting Zelensky peace meeting in Moscow during Trump phone call but offer is swiftly rejected

Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will meet, Donald Trump has said after a White House summit with European leaders aimed at bringing an end to the Ukraine war.

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48 h. ago Trump says Ukraine will 'get a lot of land' as Zelensky hails White House peace talks

Trump hints that the US would help to defend Ukraine in the air under a peace agreement with Russia

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53 h. ago NATO scrambles war planes as Putin unleashes hell on Ukraine despite peace promise

Vladimir Putin unleashed more missile strikes on Ukraine overnight after European leaders joined Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump for a meeting at the White House yesterday

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66 h. ago Zelensky says he’s ready to talk to Trump and Putin to end war in Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump met for a second time in the White House before meeting senior European leaders including Keir Starmer

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69 h. ago Trump sees bump in approval rating after meeting with Russia’s Putin

President enjoys uptick in support after meeting Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks on ending Ukraine war

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2 d. ago Why is Donbas region becoming a defining faultline in Ukraine talks?

Putin has reportedly demanded full control of industrial region but Kyiv is set against ceding any territoryRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesAt last week’s Alaska summit, Vladimir Putin made full control of Donbas – Ukraine’s industrial heartland in the east – a central condition for ending the war.According to sources briefed on the talks, the Russian leader demanded that Ukrainian forces withdraw from Donetsk and Luhansk, the two regions that make up Donbas, in exchange for a freeze along the rest of the frontline. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Vladimir Putin's 'secret daughter' blasts Russian leader and supports Ukraine in war

An alleged daughter once hidden from public view has broken her silence by directly denouncing her 'father', Vladimir Putin, for the destruction he wrought across millions of lives in Ukraine

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3 d. ago West Virginia governor says deploying national guard to Washington DC is ‘show of commitment to public safety’ – US politics live

South Carolina and Ohio are also sending members of their national guard to capital as Trump administration takes over police departmentTaiwan is an internal matter for China, Beijing’s foreign ministry said on Monday, in response to US president Donald Trump saying Chinese president Xi Jinping told him he will not invade the island while Trump is in office.Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News, ahead of talks in Alaska with Russian president Vladimir Putin over Moscow’s war with Ukraine. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Putin won in Anchorage. Now Zelenskyy and Europe are in an even more perilous position | Rajan Menon

Trump’s summit failed to achieve a ceasefire, but the Russian president will be very happy with how events are unfoldingDonald Trump portrays himself as a hard-nosed dealmaker. Yet in the run-up to Friday’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, his claim that the Russian leader held him in high regard and was therefore serious about ending the war in Ukraine sounded naive. Putin doesn’t let sentimentality shape his political and military decisions. Nor has he disavowed his longstanding claim to four Ukrainian provinces: Donetsk and Luhansk, which together comprise Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, and Zaporizhzhia and Kherson in the south. Despite Russia’s overwhelming numerical advantage in troops and weaponry, Putin occupies only one province, Luhansk, almost entirely. Yet he persists.In the days before his meeting with Putin, Trump said the Russian economy “stinks” and that falling oil prices would cause Russia’s war to run aground. The war has certainly placed severe s...

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4 d. ago Fears mount in Europe as Donald Trump 'backs Vladimir Putin’s land grab in Ukraine to end war'

The US president urged Volodymyr Zelensky to strike a deal with Russia to end the deadliest conflict since the Second World War

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4 d. ago Zelensky accuses Russia of 'complicating' end to war as embattled Ukrainian leader is summoned to the White House

Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House tomorrow for a one-on-one which Donald Trump believes could pave the way for a three-way meeting with Vladimir Putin.

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4 d. ago Vladimir Putin names his to end Ukraine war as Zelensky prepares for Trump talks

Vladimir Putin is hoping to grab as much land as possible from Ukraine ahead of any ceasefire or peace deal with Donald Trump remaining coy over what guarantees he will offer Kyiv

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4 d. ago Donald Trump sparks horror fears for Ukraine as Putin demands land grab to end war

The Prime Minister, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will host the coalition of the willing on Sunday afternoon as Putin set the Donbas as his price for peace

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